Antonov An-2 - opening source?

[ksgy]

Hi,

Have been thinking about this for weeks for now. The plan was to develop An-2 beside the L-410, or at least upgrade to XP10 following betas. But the life never is easy, have a lot of work and sadly even the L-410 can't get enogh of my attention.

There are lot of things to fix, and lot of new ideas to develop, but it's too much for me at the moment. And I don't know when will be enough time to continue the development. I'll be satisfied if I can finish L-410 this year

The main idea is hope the community will take care of Annushka. Somebody or a team will pick up the line and continue the development and the final product will be a great freeware aircraft.

So, I almost decided about opening the An-2 source files (including blender, photoshop and c++ source files too) for public, under GPLv3 license, so the source and the plane have to remain freeware as always before. The source will be available probably on GitHub.

What do you think guys?

[Peter T.]

koolio! dont forget your scenery! the one that you claimed that you wont give the quality befow ORBX

[ksgy]

Didn't forgot, just on hold, like the L-410.

[niebieski]

Great idea, ksgy!

Apart from talented XP guys contributing to Annushka and keeping it alive, other XP-developer-wannabes like me could learn a lot from it just by studying.

Very kind of you to consider opening it and releasing under GPLv3

BTW, can't wait for L-410!

Edited September 7, 2012 by niebieski

[ksgy]

So, here is the move

I've put all the source files to GitHub. Feel free to fork, modify or commit to this repo. If you make developent to this aircraft, please commit back to this repo, to keep shared with others. Thank you.

The source is available here: https://github.com/ksgy/Antonov-An-2

Hope someone(s) can make development on this nice plane

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Edited September 7, 2012 by ksgy